Structure Work to Avoid Burnout

The Agile purist view is that sprints should all be the same length (known as “common cadence”). If a team tolerates common cadence well, there’s no reason to change it. Common cadence makes calculation of velocity and other aspects of sprint planning more straightforward.

However, a common complaint about Scrum implementations is that an endless succession of sprints leads to sprint fatigue or a feeling of being on the sprint hamster wheel. With Sequential development, there are natural troughs of work, particularly between disciplines, that balance the ...